5 Vital Economics Lessons Your Kids Won’t Get in School
3. Labor
Labor is not an unfortunate part of life, it is the means to life. Without labor we cannot exist. Because there is no free lunch, we must earn it through productive labor. By performing paid labor you are performing a service of value to at least one other individual. It is immoral to exist off the labor of others when you are capable of doing for yourself. Our entire society is built on the labor of mankind.
Our society is so comfortable, children have no concept of hard work. While they don’t need to be in the fields to learn it, they do need to be taught the value of working, and that it is the foundation of civil society. A job is not a burden, it is a privilege that should be appreciated.
But productive labor only comes from jobs that perform valued, needed tasks. Government cannot create jobs, as government only functions on money it has taken from elsewhere. Because the money was taken from elsewhere, anything government uses it for is not a net gain, but merely resources reallocated.
